About Jesse Jarue Mark
Lived 1906 – 1971 (aged 64–65). Jesse Jarue Mark was a botanist and university teacher.
Education and career
Mark attended the historically Black college, Prairie View State College (now Prairie View A&M University). He was awarded a baccalaureate degree in 1929.
Mark was awarded his PhD by ISU in 1935. His doctoral work, "The relation of reserves to cold resistance in alfalfa", was published in 1936 and is in university version and journal version online. Mark studied cold resistance by growing six varieties of Grimm alfalfa known to have different levels of hardiness to cold. He analyzed samples from 50 representative plants of each variety.
Mark was a Rockefeller Agriculture Fellow in 1935–1936. Mark died on February 20, 1971, aged 65. He is buried in the Nigton Memorial Park Cemetery in Texas.
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Who was Jesse Jarue Mark?
botanist (1906-1971)
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Jesse Jarue Mark was born in 1906 in Apple Springs.
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Jesse Jarue Mark died on 20 February 1971.
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Jesse Jarue Mark was a botanist and university teacher.
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